BOYCOTT BARCLAYS - HERE'S WHY

For over two decades, the Narmada Valley in central India has been the site of one of the country's most famous civil disobedience movements. Small farmers, tribal groups and fisherpeople refused to vacate their land for a series of 30 large dams, that would flood one of India's most productive agricultural regions and lead to the forcible displacement of an estimated 2 million people.

The Trans-Thai-Malaysia Project in southern Thailand has been overwhelmingly opposed since its inception by local people, who believe that the project will pollute the marine and local environments and rip apart the society in affected fishing villages. Since 2000, the government has resorted to violence, intimidation, harassment, arrests, legal fraud, illegal detentions and threats of force to try to push the project through. Defying this violence, local opponents have peacefully occupied land near the gas separation plant construction site for nearly two years.

Despite this massive community opposition, the human rights issue and the environmental impacts, Barclays Bank is financing both projects.

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